This blog is dedicated to the illogical, inhumane, irresponsible, and unscientifically stupid things people do and say, including my own. It is my hope that putting my comments here will make me more likely to be Happy Cindy.

Monday, March 03, 2008

"We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth"

War Made Easy -- The Use of Propaganda to Sell War.

Sometimes it's difficult to decide where to post -- I could post this on HappyCindy b/c it's a great educational program, or here because propaganda makes me Cranky. I flipped a coin...

This documentary is slow and thoughtful, carefully laying out ideas with lots of supportive footage from wars, press conferences, and clips of all US Presidents and news stations, lots of reporters, looks at the news media as partners with Capital Hill -- "US officials say..." and failure to look deeper than public statements.It's 1 hour 10 minutes long.